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2023: Buhari's successsor should come from South East ― Edwin Clark

*Says no Igbo speaking person from Delta, Rivers should aspire
*Nigeria is in pains, agony, needs restoration of dignity of man, national healing ― Ohaneze President
*Says time to use South East against South East is Over
* Warns against use of violence, military to address Nigeria’s problems
*Calls for fairness, justice, equity and purposeful leadership

AHEAD of 2023 general elections, former Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South Leader, Chief Edwin Clark has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor should come from the South East geo-political zone of the country.

Clark has however described as abominable and condemnable if any Igbo speaking person from Delta and Rivers States aspires for the exalted position because such a person speaks Igbo, adding that no person from Oshimili South and North, Aniocha, Agbor or Ukwani should come out for presidency, but they should all the South East to achieve it come 2023.

Speaking Sunday at his Asokoro residence, Abuja when he received the leadership of Ohaneze Ndigbo and some South East leaders led by the President General, Professor George Obiazor, the Elderstateman who is the National Leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF said that the time has come for the South East region to produce the President of Nigeria and 2023 is the time.

The Ijaw leader who called for synergy, sacrifice among the people, said that the struggle may not be easy, but the region must reach out to other geo- Political Zones of the country in order to woo and engage them, just as he warned that the South East region must put its house in order, work in unison and as one indivisible zone.

Clark said, “the era we have reached now is that we have agreed to work together, how do we go on, how do we move on? I think that is the stage we have reached.

” I don’t belong to any political party, but I speak my mind. The man who brought politics into Nigeria was late Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, I knew him when I was 20 years when he visited Warri, we trekked 12 miles to see him. Some of the problems we are having today in Delta was as a result of the for Azikiwe and without that, we would not have gotten Midwest region that later became Bendel State and now Edo and Delta States. We are together, we are one.

“We are ing the South East region. Anybody from Midwest, Oshimili South and North, Aniocha South and North, Ika, Agbor or Ukwani, if you say I am ready to be the President of Nigeria because I speak Igbo, that is punishable because when you do something that people don’t like, it abominable.

” I have said it, all the Igbos in Anioma, Rivers, in Delta, where ever they are, this is the time for Igbo, South East President. We have the same problem, when we went to the 2014 National Conference, we said that the South East has five states, they should be given additional states so that everyone will have same states like in other zones if that will stable Nigeria, create them.

“We want the President coming after Buhari to come from the South East, we are together.

” Let me advise, if you must fight a war or fight for anything at all, we must put our house in order. What do we do with other voices that are not in tandem with our voices? We must find a way to see what can be done, they have own point, but at the same time, they should also listen to us.”

Earlier in his remarks, the President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, Professor George Obiazor who noted that Nigeria as a country was in serious agony and pains, said that the time has come for the restoration of the dignity of Man National Healing.

The Ohaneze President General who warned against the use of violence and military tactics to address the problems confronting the country said that they are used, the more factionalised the country would be and the more factionlalised we are, it would then lead to a synchronised national crisis and if not checked, could lead to inevitable disintegration.

Obiazor who noted the time has come for the South East and South-South to form a stronger synergy, said that the time when South East people could be used against South East was over, adding that one of them cannot be hated and you show love to the other.

According to Obiazor, this is not the time for people to claim that they love the South-South more than the South East Zone, just as he stressed that people can be fooled for a while and not forever, adding that what they are facing today is light at the end of the tunnel.

Obiazor who called for synergy among the people of both zones and other parts of the country, said, “today, what we need is to synergise among ourselves, the day we will do it, history will change. We all know that we have the same kind of problems.

“Honestly, you cannot hate one of us and like the other side. For people who tell us that they will like people in the South-South more than the South East or they will use one against the other, the time is over. You can fool people for some time, but not forever. What we are facing today is light at the end of the tunnel. I don’t know who does not believe in one course.

“The national question is the issue that requires a different kind of solution and resolution. The more you apply violence and military tactics to it, the more the country is factionalised, the more the country is factionalised, the more ethnic militia groups and eventually leads to what is called synchronised national crisis and the rest is history and inevitable disintegration.

“We should start doing something to address the problem. I urge the Federal Government to reconsider the use of force, I want the government to conspicuously impress the values of justice, equity and fairness as its true sense so that Nigeria will face clear ease of unity. It is time for the government and the people to start the process of healing. Nigeria is in agony and pains, it is time for national healing.

The President General of Ohaneze was accompanied during the visit by his Majesty, the Obi of Obinugwu, Imo State, Dr Cletus Ikechukwu Ilomuanya; Ohaneze Secrerary General, Chief Okey Emuchay; Senator Ben Obi; Chief Onyema Ugochukwu; Prof. A.B.C. Nwosu; Chief Dubem Onyia; Chief Guy Ikoku; Hon. Goddy Nwazurike, among others.

Also present to Chief Clark in receiving the Ohaneze leaders were former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah; former Minister of Police Affairs, Alaowei Broderick Bozimo; Senator Bassey Henshaw; Ambassador Godknows Igali, among others.

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Just say Amaechi should not contest.
Simple!


But is that the way to get presidential ticket? Igbos never learned from their previous mistakes.

bad news 4 ndigbo

Abeg PDP must give Ibos their Presidential ticket



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Aaa007:
bad news 4 ndigbo

Dunce, did you even read the story?

So edun Clark have house in Asokoro where did he got money to buy it a mere commissioner about 45 years ago...please we should forget fighting corruption in this country. Anyway he only warned igbo people Clark an ijaw man don't have say over Urobo, efik,oron,bini, itsekiri.

lol...Ikwerre, Ndoni, Ogba etc should count their teeth. In 2007 the same clerk stopped Odili from contesting with SS slot for being an Igbo. Now he is stopping them from contesting under SE. They are like bats with face like goats and wings like birds. An election that'll never be. Ndi zoo.

Damnnn niggarrrr
As a real niggarrr

Am gonna igbo presidency anyday, anytime twice on election day

They have started raising dust.

It's not Igbo presidency

It's south east presidency
They're seeking for

Anyway me personally
I don't have any problem with the South south Igbos contesting
I can accept Delta igbo excluding ika
And I also have no problem with Rivers Igbo except ikwerre

Anyway Edwin Clark is an Ijaw man
He should focus on his creeks
And stop doing attache by force
Which Ijaw people like doing
(Always trying to speak and claim Igbo, just like Asari, Hilda, good luck, timaya,preye and co faking Igbo)

Ikwerres n aniomas over to u guys

That former SGF, sen Anyim pius said same thing. Is there something we don't know. Are igbos in Rivers and Delta not same igbo as those in the SE?

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We ipob are not interested in who become d president, our only mission in 2023 is to make sure tinubu did not become president

Yoruba ppl betrayed we igbos by not voting atiku/obi in 2023

APC should make we igbos president, it should be given to us on a platter of gold

Clark has however described as abominable and condemnable if any Igbo speaking person from Delta and Rivers States aspires for the exalted position because such a person speaks Igbo, adding that no person from Oshimili South and North, Aniocha, Agbor or Ukwani should come out for presidency, but they should all the South East to achieve it come 2023.

Is this man serious at all

If you take time to think, never waist time to realize. seeing is not believing, but believing is all about the size of the dung that shatters the kpekus.never give up if you're insane. Try to make food if you're joking.

Lol. This is how they'll be discriminated in biafra. When you want their land and oil, they're 100% igbo. But now, theyre igbo speaking Delta people.

Most people didn't read the content but you will see them fighting in the comment section

Even in diaspora igbos contest and win

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I concur.
Every patriotic Nigerian should seek to pacify the Ibos just like they did Yoruba in 1999
Only selfish people like Tinubu will seek vain glory instead of a harmonious nation

But a certain Favour32 believes someone named Emefiele from Delta state isn't Igbo.

Nawa o
I thought there are only Igbos in South East.

If you are here and you have Igbo roots and still claiming Niger Delta. Your shame dey shame me o. Even the North know say all of una na Igbo. At the appointed time they will remind you that you are Igbo.
The North said that Igbo killed the premier of the North Ahamadu Bello. The man that killed him is Kaduna Nzeogwu from Okpanam in Asaba. Is Asaba not among the so called South South and Niger Delta?


Ask Odili, Amaechi etc, they will tell you better.

Very good

Abascoh:

Dunce, did you even read the story?

Have mercy

I didn't read it till the end. But I think the country itself na beta cruise.

My fellow lazy readers, I think I spoke ur minds

Tell PDP - their beloved party.

One of hardcore sabo during the war....and was honoured by returning all their family investments after the war and also given some seized properties with a political position


HARD CORE SABOTEUR....TESTED AND TRUSTED BY THE CALIPHATE TO CARRY OUT THEIR DUTIES

Selective equity is not equity!
You can't say power should return to the south for the sake of fairness and then turn around to give a region in the south that has already had 8 unbroken yrs of rule!
That is injustice.

Nigeria my kontree

Ijaw man
Edwin Clark is an Ijaw man
So he should mind his business
And stop trying to cause Enmity

He should focus on his ijaw creeks